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<strong><em>For Immediate Release</em></strong></p>
<p>contact: Civil Peace Service Gaza +0595 567 120</p>
<p>When:  14 July 2011, 6:00 pm local time<br />
Where: Port of Gaza, Palestine<br />
Who: <strong>Alexandra Robinson</strong>, US human rights monitor for Civil Peace Service Gaza<br />
<strong>Khalil Shaheen</strong>, Director of the Economic and Social Rights Unit, PCHR<br />
<strong>Mahfouz Kabiriti</strong>, President of Palestine Association for Fishing and Marine Sports<br />
What: CPSGAZA crew members and leaders will denounce recent Israeli naval aggression and announce their plans for future missions</p>
<p><strong>For the second consecutive day, the CPSGAZA human rights monitoring boat came under sustained attack by Israeli naval forces, and was threatened for the first time with lethal force.</strong></p>
<p>At approximately 8:15 am, two Israeli gunboats approached the Oliva as it cruised within the three-nautical mile fishing zone unilaterally imposed and enforced by Israeli forces.</p>
<p>After circling it several times, they opened fire on it with water cannons, nearly filling it with water in an apparent attempt to sink it.</p>
<p>Two United States crew members and the Palestinian captain were rescued from the vessel, in imminent danger of capsizing, by a small fishing boat, which transported them to a nearby trawler.</p>
<p>One of the warships then circled the trawler for nearly an hour, firing water cannons at it and taunting its fishing crew over its loudspeaker with cries of, &#8220;Where are your fish? Show me your fish!&#8221;</p>
<p>The warship eventually departed, after an amplified warning that if it returned to the sea, the Israeli navy would shoot both Palestinian fishermen and international human rights observers.</p>
<p>&#8220;Such behavior and threats towards unarmed international observers clearly demonstrates an attempt to hide the ongoing crimes of an illegal blockade,&#8221; said Alexandra Robinson, a United States citizen and CPSGAZA crew member who experienced the attack.</p>
<p>Civil Peace Service Gaza is an international third party non-violent initiative to monitor potential human rights violations in Gazan territorial waters.</p>
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<p><a href="http://www.cpsgaza.org/2011/07/cps-gaza-responds-to-israeli-naval.html">Source</a></p>
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